AFTER SEVENTY

Shannon News, 8 January 1926, Page 4

AFTER SEVENTY

MEDICAL ADVICE. Men of forty have it in their power not only to avoid disaster at fifty-five or sixty, but to live through a healthy, active middle-age until seventy* with yet-ahother twenty years of comfortable life to look forward to. This is the view expressed ,by the Medical Officer of Health for Deptf ord, Dr. Charles S. Thomson, speaking at the Nations* Exhibition, Olympia, recently. The v -chronic bon viveur, the gay Lothario, the glutton, and wine-bibber, , who dies early, is a suicide, he de--clared. i A man of fifty-five has no right to be bald, deaf, stiff in the muscles, . obese, with teeth going and some varicose veins. When we add to over indulgence in food and drink the' strain of social and business ambitions, worry, emotional state, anger and grief, then our errors are followed by structural changes in our organs. s * Other points in the doctor's recipe for a green old age .were: — Our whole life and. well-being depend upon the proper digestion of/ food, and we need thirty-two good teeth and 1 thirty-two bites for each mouthful of food. A man should visit the' dentist every six months if he wants to live long. Dinner at night is better than a full midday meal. Eat meat once a day only. Everybody over forty should take enough food to maintain the" lightest weight consistent with perfect health. Simple diet consists lof wholemeal bread, plain biscuits, plain puddings, vegetables, fruit, some meat, fish, milk, butter and cheese. Never take alcohol before night, and take very little of it even then. Every man of forty who would live to ninety must become a food specialist; the smooth working of his alimentary system is the key to the door leading to a green old, age. He must eat fresh foods and give up the fancy cooking which wrecks the vitamines. Moderation in eating is imperative. Drink plenty of water between meals, fast for a day from time to time, and take a three mile walk daily. The speaker recommended a three days' fast at times.